CSE 287 - Advanced Topics in Computer Animation


Marcelo Kallmann - Spring 07 - Thu 11-12:50 and Fri 3-4:50 - COB 206

Office Hours: TU 10:30-12:30

(NEW!) Photos of Final Projects:  [here]

This course is experimentally integrating the concept of "learning by doing it",
by connecting lecture topics with programming demonstrations and exercises of the concepts.

Wk Dates Thu - Lecture Notes Fri - "Lab" Readings
1 Jan 18,19 L1: course introduction and
intro to motion planning
- Parameterization of Rotations
2 Jan 25,26 L2: rotations Mentar: anytime classification
Xiaoxi: reaching planner
Shoemake's papers on quaternions:
original and recent
3 Feb 1,2 L3: forward kinematics
(example code here)
mtgs in my office:
3:00 EricL , 3:25 EricP
3:50 Khotan, 4:15 Peter
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4 Feb 8,9 L4: inverse kinematics-I - Analytical IK
5 Feb 15,16 L5: inverse kinematics-II Mentar: motion templates
Xiaoxi: task and path planning
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6 Feb 22,23 L6: inverse kinematics-III project presentations: EricL, EricP, Khotan, Peter Multi-task IK
7 Mar 1,2 L7: particles
(example code here)
- Physically Based Modelling Course
8 Mar 8,9 L8: implicit integration Mentar: assembling motions
Xiaoxi: physical touch-up
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9 Mar 15,16 L9: constraints project presentations: EricL, EricP, Khotan, Peter Cloth Simulation
10 Mar 22,23 L10: rigid bodies project presentations: Mentar, Xiaoxi -
11 Mar 29,30 spring break spring break -
12 Apr 5,6 L11: contacts Xiaoxi: splicing motions
Mentar: motion parameterization and footskate
Warping and Space-Time
13 Apr 12,13 L12: articulated project presentations: EricL, EricP, Khotan, Peter Motion Edition
14 Apr 19,20 L13: behavioral animation I Xiaoxi: dynamics from anim and spacetime editing
Mentar: physics-based styles and hierarch editing
Walking
15 Apr 26,27 L14: behavioral animation II
cloth deformation
Xiaoxi: dynamic controllers
Mentar: human athletics
Perling and Reynolds
16 May 3,4 (evaluations 11am)
Xiaoxi: grasping
Mentar: dynamic mocap
Xiaoxi: data based ik and
Mentar: artificial fishes
Radial Basis Functions
17 May 10,11 classes end all projects pres -

Graduate Students Only:
- You have to submit a short report for every reading (yes this has changed)

Resources:
- graphsim lib
- graphics lab wiki

Office hours: Prof. Kallmann's office (SE1 282), Tu 10:30-12:30

Grading
40% Presentations and Reports
40% Project
20% Participation